Wow – this site has just had its 10,000th page view.  This isn’t bad for a site only aimed at people who live within 500 metres of each other in Kings Cross. Internet statistics are funny things but the following might be of interest:

• This website began on 4 July 2006 as to record the things going on in Kings Cross to clean up the streets. There have been 160 posts/articles.
• There are three authors so far – me, Stephan and Sophie. 
• The site functions as a sort of community environment magazine – recording and informing local issues. 
• Average page views a day are between 40 and 50
• The site has links to about 12 local issues videos on YouTube – in aggregate the videos have been viewed 2,800 times.  The videos have been especially useful for noise pollution issues – the polluting sound comes over well
• Updates happen about a couple of times a week on average
• As with most ‘blogs’ only 10% of people comment, the majority are happy to watch. 
• Paul Convery, Stuart Cottis and Alistair Murray are the most prolific commenters
• Stephan Schulte’s excellent Kings Cross community email list seems to drive viewers (he mentions something, readership goes up that day).
• 35 people subscribe to the email update service driven by Feedburner (they get one email per 24 hours when the site is updated – the mail has all the latest posts in and photos)
• The site runs on the Typepad blogging software, costing about £8 a month.  It is very easy to use.
• The site has been on the Guardian discussion site and Chris ‘Brent Spar’ Rose has featured it as an example of ultra-local campaigning on his site.
• If I get around to claiming it, I shall get a small amount of money from Islington Council from the West Area Community Chest to meet some costs – this has no impact on editorial policy.